Mass Deletions & Deactivations
It's time for a massive rethink on how I use social media which is providing me with precious little value anymore. In this post I share how I will focus more on creation and sensemaking.
View ArticleSpaces for Listening
Yesterday I attended Spaces for Listening which was an hour-long facilitated session with Meredith Lewis (@DangerousMere) on Zoom. If you don’t follow Meredith on Twitter, then you should do yourself a...
View ArticleTips on Seeking Feedback in Language Learning
For the last year, I’ve been trying to learn French. Last year, much of it spent housebound in lockdown and unable to go outside into the world, I had more time to focus on picking up a new language...
View ArticleAdopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams – A Live Read
I don’t know if you caught the live reading on the Adopt & Embrace YouTube channel on Friday where founder, (and my boss) Paul Woods (@paulwoods) read from the first chapter of our book Microsoft...
View ArticleSmarter Note Taking
First book I read in 2022 on my new Kindle (a nice gift from Santa, thank you very much) was How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens who also has a great website Take Smart Notes. Why Did I Choose This...
View ArticleHappy New Year?
Is it happy? Will it be happy? It seems weird to start my first post of the new year having a bit of a whinge and a cry. After all, we’ve been through the crappiest couple of years and now heading into...
View ArticleContinuing with French
I thought I’d write about my plans for French studies for the next few months in 2022. I have written lots over the last couple of years of my journey into language learning and I’m chuffed to say that...
View ArticleMy First Park Run
During the first lockdown in 2020 (we like to call it, Lockdown 1.0), I started to go out every day before work and knock off 10,000 steps. I was walking every day and it got to the point that it...
View ArticleMy Notion of Microsoft Loop
Things at the beginning of the work year are always a little bit quiet until people get back from holidays and commence projects for the upcoming months. As such, it’s always the “calm before the...
View ArticleIf Less is More, How are You Keeping Score?
This morning on my daily walk I decided to listen to some French radio streaming from Paris. I use the app Radio Garden on my phone to listen to various French (and some Greek) radio stations. This...
View ArticleLittle Video Snippets
I’ve always loved recording videos and some years back, taking daily videos on what I was learning and experimenting on (using Snapchat) was the way I preferred to communicate. I have written how I...
View ArticleExistential Crisis
I’ve not been “feeling the love” this year. When the new year came in, I was nonplussed about it all. Unlike other years where I used the opportunity to set some new goals and start afresh, this year,...
View ArticleFrozen
Well we finally got here in the end. We love going to different shows in Melbourne and in 2019, we found out that Frozen, The Musical would be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre. We booked tickets but...
View ArticleStruggling Through Certain Books
‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ Just about every parent I’ve been reading a book as part of a book club by Kim Scott called Radical Candor: Be a Kick Ass Boss...
View ArticleWalt Disney Animation Exhibition
Last night we went to the Walt Disney Animation Exhibition held at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square. It was a lovely summer evening out and people were outside...
View ArticleMeta Verse Mumblings
I’m putting it out there, I’m not a fan of the meta verse. Before you say, Helen, you luddite. You haven’t even given it a CHANCE! Have you even USED Virtual Reality? Have you ever PLAYED a VR game?...
View ArticleMid Life
I’m at an age now where I’m going through a new phase in my life and part of this journey meant that I have been re-evaluating a lot of things such as health, family, friends, relationships. What...
View ArticleThey Live
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. I recently caught up on all my newsletter...
View ArticleFavourite You Tube Channels
I love YouTube, I watch it more than Netflix or any other channel on television simply because I can find anything of my interest – and in other languages. I curate my own television network that has...
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